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There must be, of course, or where would be the use of this double-entry business? And by George, I have it! he exclaimed; 'it's exactly the same as the last! And he hastily re-wrote the passage: Bad. Good. I have lost the leather business and the rest of my uncle's succession. But not if I can find a physician who will stick at nothing.
Colleville, a musician in the evening, kept the books of a merchant from seven to nine in the morning, and by ten o'clock he was at his ministry. Thus, by blowing into a bit of wood by night, and writing double-entry accounts in the early morning, he managed to eke out his earnings to seven or eight thousand francs a year.
This species of regret is peculiar to the class of which I am speaking, and they often discern failure in what the world counts success. The veteran does not look back to the time when he was in the awkward squad; the accountant does not sigh over the time when he was bewildered by the mysteries of double-entry. And the reason is obvious.
It seemed to her as if he ought, for her sake, to make more of an effort in her drawing-room, whatever might be their private quarrel; she felt it was a consideration due to her and to which his numerous homages had accustomed her. She entered this new grievance in a double-entry book, which a woman always devotes to the slightest actions of the man who pays court to her.
I kind of thought I yes, yes, I I thought likely I did . . . Yes, yes, course I did, course I did. Well, now maybe we'd better be startin' you in to work er Augustus. Know anything about double-entry, do you?" Albert did not, nor had he the slightest desire to learn.
Or, to take a case with which you are more familiar that of the merchant. The merchant's clerk must understand book-keeping and double-entry, and know how to arrange every item of the account under its proper head, and how to balance the whole correctly.
A property at Shrewsbury, in which under his grandfather's will he had a reversionary interest contingent on his surviving his father, was re-settled so as to make his reversion absolute: he mortgaged this reversion and bought small property near London: this temporarily alleviated his financial embarrassment but added to his work, for he spent much time in the management of the houses, learnt book-keeping by double-entry and kept elaborate accounts.
It seemed to her as if he ought, for her sake, to make more of an effort in her drawing-room, whatever might be their private quarrel; she felt it was a consideration due to her and to which his numerous homages had accustomed her. She entered this new grievance in a double-entry book, which a woman always devotes to the slightest actions of the man who pays court to her.
I see also, as in one picture, the colossal scale of that human struggle in that Armageddon of our civilization, which at the time one reckoned only by each day's success or failure, each day's slaughter on that side or the other. One may add up the whole sum according to the bookkeeping of Fate, by double-entry, credit and debit, profit and loss.
There must be, of course, or where would be the use of this double-entry business? And by George, I have it!" he exclaimed; "it's exactly the same as the last!" And he hastily re-wrote the passage: Bad. Good. I have lost the leather 3. But not if I can find a physician business and the rest of who will stick at nothing. my uncle's succession.
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